Tina Out Loud!: Eat This Book!

What’s In The Brown Bag?

2 Timothy 4:2 -“…proclaim the Message with intensity; keep your watch. Challenge, warn and urge your people. Don’t ever quit." (The Message)

I heard a story a while ago which went something like this: There was a man in America who walked into a poor town one day with just the suit that he wore and a brown bag. He decided he would turn the town around. Within a few years this town was economically thriving and the town’s people decided to throw a celebratory party. The man who had turned it around gave a speech which started: “I turned up 5 years ago in just the suit I was stood up in a brown bag and I decided to turn this town around and now we have…….” He gave thanks to all those who worked with him and the party continued. As he left the stage from which he had been speaking he was surrounded by reporters who said that they just had one question: What was in the brown bag? The man replied “$3,000,000”.

Whoever we are (and we may look like a ‘brown bag’ on the outside!) we possess knowledge, insights, words from God that can encourage, correct and change lives around us. This is our $3,000,000.

What’s in your brown bag? What can you share?

I’ve decided to share the contents of mine. Some of it you may think is worth $3,000,000, some $3. However, if it benefits one person then this is good enough.

7 August 2009

Eat This Book!

I love this quote I read recently in ‘Life With God’ by Richard Foster, taken from ‘Eat This Book’ by Eugene Peterson. I also love the title ‘Eat This Book’!

“Christians feed on Scripture. Holy Scripture nurtures the holy community as food nurtures the human body. Christians don’t simply learn or study or use Scripture; we assimilate it, take it into our lives in such a way that it gets metabolized into acts of love, cups of cold water, missions into all the world, healing and evangelism and justice in Jesus’ name, hands raised in adoration of the Father, feet washed in company with the Son.”

Do we see the Bible in this light? I know when I spend time reading the word of God my spiritual heartbeat picks up, there is an alertness in me, I know what I need to do, how I need to live.

Hebrews 4:12 - “For the word of God is living and active. Sharper than any double-edged sword, it penetrates even to dividing soul and spirit, joints and marrow; it judges the thoughts and attitudes of the heart.”

How often are you eating this great Book?

Tina Out Loud!

What’s In The Brown Bag?

7 August 2009

Eat This Book!

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